Chapter 516: Dinner
Hermione was wearing a simple and elegant blood-red dress robe today, her hair was loosely tied in a bun at the back of her head like she had at the Christmas Ball, and it was fastened with a hairpin with the same simple style but quite charming, inlaid with small elven white gems, and at the same time, her fair and delicate neck was rarely exposed, which looked very temperamental.
"I finally know one of the benefits of the boost. As the two of them went upstairs, Hermione said, "I didn't really like this kind of party before, because in order not to be rude in front of a crowd on such occasions, it is necessary to have a perfect haircut. But my hair is a bit tricky to deal with, and the last time I was at this kind of event, it took a lot of hair smoothing potions to get my hair styled. But now, I just need to let the magic flow through my hair a little. ”
Ryan felt a little speechless after hearing this, this is the power that allows people to become gods, and it is really overkill to use it to smooth hair.
When the two of them walked to the hallway at the door of Slughorn's office, they watched as Harry was greeted by Professor Slughorn with Ginny in his arms. Thinking that the professor might need to be busy entertaining Harry at this point, it took a minute or so for Hermione to take Ryan's outstretched arm up the marble steps and enter Slughorn's office.
Slughorn's office looked much larger than it was outside, presumably a temporary stretching spell he had cast for tonight's party, but even if it was a temporary measure, the office was still very well decorated: the ceiling and walls were draped in emerald green, crimson and gold, and it looked like it was in a large tent. In the center of the ceiling, a golden lamp illuminates everything in the room. There are also real elves flickering in the lamp, and each elf is a bright point of light.
"Welcome, welcome. Slughorn walked over wearing a poppy velvet hat that matched his smoking shirt, looking at Harry's position and the smoking camera, he should have just finished Harry's photo session.
"Good evening, Professor Slughorn. Ryan and Hermione offered to say hello.
"I'm very welcome to you, Mr. Leung and Miss Granger. Have a great time tonight, and I'll leave first, because I have a lot of guests to entertain today. With that, he said goodbye to Ryan and the others, and went to pull Harry to introduce him to the guests.
I have to say that although Slughorn is a little more utilitarian, he has a high rating in interpersonal communication. For example, he is very detail-oriented and can make a good impression on everyone he wishes to befriend. Just like the pronunciation of Lane's surname, he can rarely pronounce it accurately, and most of the other people pronounce it close to "cold".
In fact, Slughorn's attitude was also what Ryan and the others wanted, and after coming to a corner and grabbing a glass of juice each, they began to look at the whole party scene.
As Slughorn had said, there were a lot of people here today: a loud song sounding like a mandolin could be heard from a corner in the distance, a few old wizards were talking with a mist of pipes on their heads, some house-elves were walking through the jungle of calves with heavy silver plates, and in order to ensure that the wizards were not aware of their habit of serving, they covered themselves with large tablecloths that looked like roaming little tables.
"It's terrible, Harry has been occupied by Professor Slughorn, and I've been waiting for a long time for Professor Slughorn to let go. Just as Ryan stood at the table and drank half a glass of juice, Ginny squeezed out of the crowd. She then picked up a glass of juice from the table and grumbled to Hermione as she drank it.
"Your sweetheart is Professor Slughorn's most important and shining guest at today's party. Hermione mimicked the tone of the elves in the Lord of the Rings world, and then laughed with Ginny.
Ryan looked at this scene and smiled slightly, and suddenly he felt a pair of unfriendly glances fall on the two girls. Hermione naturally noticed this at this time, and she naturally put her right hand on her left wrist, apparently ready to take out the weapon from the bracelet space on her wrist at any time.
When the two of them followed their gazes, they saw that Hermione and Ginny were looking at Hermione and Ginny as a tall, thin young man with black circles under his eyes, and he looked tired. But now the young man looked at the two girls with a hungry look.
"Vampires?" Ryan stepped forward to meet the vampire's gaze at the girls, glaring at him as angrily, it was Professor Slughorn's party, so out of respect for the party's host, Ryan felt that he could just warn the rude guy to stay away.
Unexpectedly, though, the vampire screamed as if he had seen something terrible after making eye contact with Ryan's eyes, and then ran away from several people, desks, chairs, and benches and ran straight out of the office. A small, bespectacled man standing next to him who was chatting with Harry was stunned for a moment, then shouted, "Bloodny, what are you doing here?"
However, his shouts had no effect at all, and the vampire had already run out of the door and turned a corner by this time, and disappeared. The little man quickly apologized to the people around him, and then rushed out to find his fellow vampires. Harry finally breathed a sigh of relief, and after looking around, he walked over like Ryan.
"What was going on just now?" asked Ginny whispering as she leaned in to Harry after handing him a drink.
"I don't know. Harry was confused, too, "The two men were introduced to me by Slughorn, the one with the glasses was Elder Wolple, the author of "Blood Brothers: I Live Among Vampires", and the other was his vampire friend Bloodny. Just now Vorpur was trying to persuade me to write a biography of me, but I was trying to get rid of him when something happened. ”
While Harry was telling all this, Vorpur found the escaped Bloodni in the corridor outside. To his surprise, when he found the bloodnish, the vampire was hiding himself behind a statue and shivering with his head in his hands. After being slapped by himself, the vampire jumped up more violently as if he had a spring attached.
"It's you, you're scared to death. He wanted to run away again, but when he saw the face of the visitor, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. Then the whole person collapsed, leaned against the statue and began to gasp for breath.
"What were you doing?" said Whopur angrily. "We could have befriended a lot of important people today, but you messed everything up! Why did you just run?"
"It's horrible!" Bloodnie said to Whopur with a look of horror. "You know, I'm more sensitive as a Bloodline than the average wizard, and I just saw in the eyes of a young boy that at least a dozen Blood's lives were buried at his hands, and many of them were more powerful than me. I was terrified for a moment, that's why I was so out of control. ”
"At least a dozen? There shouldn't have been such a massive vampire death in recent years, right? Wait, could it be the Romanian ...... two years ago" Wrapple's eyes widened as he thought of a terrible fact. "Anyway, we'll need to call Professor Slughorn in a moment before we can leave. But remember that you have to keep it in your heart and not tell anyone about it. Because he chose to make this a cold case, then I'm sure such a person wouldn't mind killing a poor author and his vampire friend in order to protect his secret. ”
"I'm sure I won't say it, as a blood clan, I know better the power of people who can do such things as extermination, so why don't you give me an oblivion spell now. Bloodni said from the bottom of his heart.
"Let's wait until we say goodbye to the professor, I think I'll need to give myself an amnesia curse when the time comes. Whople said with a shrug.